![]() The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Center City Philadelphia | |
Formation | 1824 |
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Type | Historical Society |
Headquarters | 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 19107 |
President and CEO | David R. Brigham[1] |
Website | hsp |
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historic research facility headquartered on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. It is a repository for millions of historic items ranging across rare books, scholarly monographs, family chronicles, maps, press reports and varied ephemera, reaching back almost 300 years, and accessible on the society's website.